U.S. District Judge Milton I. Shadur overstepped his bounds when he took it upon himself to rewrite a contingent-fee agreement, a federal appeals court has held.The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned Shadur’s decision to restructure the agreement in a way that cut the fees owed to Williams, Bax & Saltzman P.C. from $229,166 to $174,730.The court concluded that the fee the firm was to receive under the agreement — one-third off the top of the settlement amount — was reasonable.The court also …